Quotes About Ambiguity

I mean, the reason I do drugs is because the world is so capricious and unpredictable. You do nice things, and people are mean in return, or you act like an ogre, and people are incredibly kind in response. Sometimes a plus b equals c, but lots of times it doesn't.

From the side window smoke could be seen rising from the Westing house, but Sydelle Pulaski did not notice.

The lodging arrangements had certainly been inspired, though whether by an angel or an imp remained to be seen.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or hell which way to fall.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

We are not sure of sorrow,And joy was never sure.

But crucially, the difficulties surrounding racial classification also meant that definitions of black and white remained indeterminate.

How are you feeling? Mrs Rock said. I'm okay, George said. I think it's because I don't think I am. You're okay because you don't think you're okay? Mrs Rock said. Feeling, George said. I think I'm okay because I don't think I'm feeling.

I don't know, her mother says. I don't know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I'm finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.

It was cruel, though, to want to, and tempting, so I'd become an expert at almost.

Here was all about the visible-invisible borders, the thin lines between here and gone, then and now, here and there, random and meant, big and small.

The thing is, Iphis and Ianthe had actually, for real, very really, fallen in love. Did their hearts hurt? I said. Did they think they were underwater all the time? Did they feel scoured by light? Did they wander about not knowing what to do with themselves?

It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.

I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you're ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

But love's a tonic, Michael, not a cure. He was a bastard still.

She liked the salty taste of contradiction on her tongue.

I'll never know how to live, will you?

This is my heart, or is it yours, I move within.

it's anywhere in the broken clock

This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stop when you look.

I'll never know how to live, will you? That was blood in my eyes, not flames.